Category Archives: rant

Conditional Page Break in MS Word

Posted on 2016/07/24 by

Background For many years I have put up with using MS Word’s Insert | Break | Section Break (Odd Page) (now Layout | Breaks | Section Breaks | Odd Page in Word 2016) to force a page break when you want … Continue reading →

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I Bought a MS Surface Book, so now I’m really P…d off with Apple

Posted on 2016/01/15 by

Because if Apple had kept up its history of innovation in Personal Computers, Apple Laptops would now be shipping with touch-screens and stylus pencils. Continue reading →

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WordPress Changed their editor – and it sucks

Posted on 2014/08/17 by

Welcome to the keyhole. Trying to edit/create a blog post using WordPress just got harder (as if it wasn’t hard enough already!) When I go to create a page, the first thing you notice is that you have to edit … Continue reading →

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Damn you Microsoft and your forced reboot! HOW DARE YOU!

Posted on 2013/04/04 by

I’ve just lost 30mins (at least) of work.  I was was in the middle of doing a complicated install of a virtual machine (I was installing FreeBSD on a QEMU virtual machine) and documenting each step.  All of a sudden, … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, opinion, rant, Windows 8 | 4 Comments

CCNA Certification Changes 2013 Summary

Posted on 2013/04/03 by

On 26 March 2013, Cisco announced new CCNA certifications.. Here is my interpretation of the changes. In a nutshell ICND1 is now considerably harder, absorbing much of the ICND2 content (IPv6, ACLs, VLANs and OSPF) while ICND2 seems to be … Continue reading →

Posted in 802.1ad, 802.3ad, 802.3ax, ACL, CCNA, Certifications, Cisco, EIGRP, Etherchannel, ICND, ICND1, ICND2, IPv6, New CCNA certification, New Cisco certifications, opinion, OSPF, portfast, rant, rapid spanning-tree, RIP, Routing, spanning-tree, VLANs, VLSM, VTP, wifi, wireless network | 6 Comments

Windows 8 Install – What a ridiculous product key

Posted on 2013/01/08 by

Not Happy. Since I have a Mac, I had to buy the System Builder version of Windows 8 to legally run it in a Virtual Machine. I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with … Continue reading →

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Vodafone? no – Vodafail!

Posted on 2013/01/06 by

I know the Vodafail tag is an old joke, but for me it is a joke no longer. Twelve months ago I signed up for another two years with Vodafone, sucked in by promises of “our network will get better, … Continue reading →

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